In Medias Res : Peter Sloterdijk's Spherological Poetics of Being

In recent years, Peter Sloterdijk has become one of Germany’s most influential thinkers. His diverse body of work includes a Heideggerian project to think “space and time,” a Diogenes-inspired affirmation of the body, and a Deleuzian ontology of network-spheres. This highly accessible collection of essays brings together a team of internationally renowned scholars, including Sjoerd van Tuinen, Rudi Laermans, Peter Weibel, and Bruno Latour, to provide a series of critical reflections on Sloterdijk’s oeuvre. Sloterdijk has in recent years grown into one of Germany{u2019}s most influential thinkers. His work, which is extremely relevant for philosophers, scientists of art and culture, sociologists, political scientists and theologists, is only now gradually being translated in English. This book makes his work accessible to a wider audience by putting it to work in orientation towards current issues. Sloterdijk{u2019}s philosophy moves from a Heideggerian project to think {u2018}space and time{u2019} to a Diogenes-inspired {u2018}kynical{u2019} affirmation of the body and a Deleuzian ontology of network-spheres. In a range of accessible and clearly written chapters, this book discusses the many aspects of this thought. In Medias Res brengt een gezelschap van gerenommeerde auteurs samen om het oeuvre van Peter Sloterdijk toe te lichten, kritisch te bezien en toe te passen. Sloterdijk is in recente jaren uitgegroeid tot een van de meest toonaangevende Duitse denkers. Zijn werk, dat uitermate relevant is voor filosofen, kunst- en cultuurwetenschappers, sociologen, politicologen en theologen, wordt pas sinds kort vertaald naar het Engels. Dit boek is de eerste Engelstalige bundeling die het werk van Sloterdijk toegankelijk maakt voor een breder publiek. In verschillende, helder geschreven hoofdstukken bespreken de auteurs de vele aspecten van Sloterdijks rijke filosofie Cover 1 Title 4 Creative Commons License 5 Table of contents 6 1 Peter Sloterdijk’s Spherological Acrobatics: An Exercise in Introduction 8 2 Foamy Business: On the Organizational Politics of Atmospheres 30 3 Philosophy”: Posthumanism, Anthropotechnics and the Poetics of Natal Difference 44 4 Disinhibition, Subjectivity and Pride. Or: Guess Who Is Looking? 68 5 Sloterdijk and the Question of an Aesthetic 84 6 Uneasy Places. Monotheism, Christianity, and the Dynamic of the Unlikely in Sloterdijk’s Work –Context and Debate 100 7 The Attention Regime: On Mass Media and the Information Society 116 8 In the Beginning was the Accident:The Crystal Palace as a Cultural Catastrophe and the Emergence of the Cosmic Misfit 134 9 A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design with Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk 152 10 Sloterdijk and the Question of Action 166 11 The Space of Global Capitalism and its Imaginary Imperialism: An Interview with Peter Sloterdijk 186 Contributors 196 Index 198

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